We study whether tax considerations are an important determinant of commercial mortgage default. We also study whether large lenders are better informed, or better at interpreting information for lending purposes, and hence have lower foreclosure rates; whether lenders have more information on...

A hedge fund's capital structure is fragile because uninformed fund investors are highly loss sensitive and easily withdraw capital in response to bad news. Hedge fund managers, sharing common investors and interacting with each other through market price, sensitively react to other funds'...

The authors theoretically analyze the efficiency of liquidity flows in stabilizing distressed markets. Their analysis focuses on the incentives for financial institutions; specifically, they focus on arbitrage profit as an incentive and liquidity risk as a disincentive. The authors show that...

We develop a market model to illustrate synchronized market runs by informed and rational hedge funds. A hedge fund's capital structure is fragile because uninformed fund investors are highly loss sensitive and easily withdraw capital in response to bad news. Hedge fund managers, sharing common...

This study comprehensively examines the economic and financial drivers of volatility changes in terms of a cross-country perspective. We exhaustively review a wide range of studies related to financial volatility forecasting and collect a diverse set of prediction variables. By analyzing them...

We analyze the effect of scheduled macroeconomic news on intraday market sentiment by comparing the sentiment of the announcement date with that of the non-announcement date. The announcement of the macroeconomic indicators itself does not change the market sentiment, but the direction of the...

This study examines how global risk aversion affects future real economic activity (REA). We propose a new international real business cycle (RBC) framework with a stochastic global risk aversion spillover process by extending the RBC model. Our model reflects output competition and risk...

The present study is an attempt to quantify the agglomeration risk in retail shopping centers. We accept that consumers are attracted to a shopping center in proportion to the mass of the anchor tenant. Nonetheless we feel it important to allow this attraction to be stochastic with its time...